Frank Thring credited as playing...
Herod Antipas
- Herodias: I heard that name John the Baptist. I hear he speaks evil things of me wherever he goes.
- Salome: His heart should be ripped from his body!
- Herod Antipas: [amused by Salome's reply] Your daughter, Herodias, grows more like her mother day by day.
- [Herodias grins approvingly]
- Salome: Do I not please you?
- Herod Antipas: My stepdaughter pleases me very much, Salome.
- Salome: [to John the Baptist] Yes, we do live in a very wicked world.
- [sarcastically]
- Salome: You frighten me, you angry man!
- Herod Antipas: Salome, come back!
- Salome: This beast amuses me. Make him dance! On a bed of hot coals.
- Herodias: Far better to cut his vicious tongue from its roots.
- Herod Antipas: [observing John the Baptist from a distance] One more Messiah on the way. Do these Jews never tire of inventing deliverers?
- Herod Antipas: Dance for me Salome! Salome, drink a little wine. Taste this, so that I may drain the cup.
- Salome: I'm not thirsty.
- Herod Antipas: Salome, dance for me. I command you to dance!
- Salome: I will not dance.
- Herod Antipas: You cannot refuse me. Salome will now dance for us!
- Salome: I do refuse.
- Herod Antipas: Salome, I beg of you. I'll give you anything you want.
- Herod Antipas: Tell me, Lucius. What manner of man is Pontius Pilate? How should I treat him? What is his weakness?
- Lucius: Same as any man. Vanity.
- Pontius Pilate: [Lucius is reporting to Pontius Pilate and Herod Antipas on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount] What did the man say?
- Lucius: [dryly] He spoke of... peace, love, and the brotherhood of man.
- Herod Antipas: Humph! Is that all?
- Lucius: That is all.
- [Lucius leaves]
- Herod Antipas: [noticing Pilate looks puzzled] What is the matter?
- Pontius Pilate: The look on Lucius' face.
- Herod Antipas: He had a long journey. He looked tired.
- Pontius Pilate: He looked more than tired to my eyes.
- Herod Antipas: [annoyed that Jesus did not do any miracles he requested] Take this faker back to Pilate. Tell him Herod was not pleased with His performance.